Adsense on WordPress.com Blog?
WordPress.com is free blog Hosting service and never allowed third party advertising (like Adsense) for users. According to the service managers, advertising has not been available till now because they wanted to avoid “spoiling” the quality of service.
Good News is, WordPress now allows to have Advertising on WordPress.com too with the introduction of Wordads. WordPress has partnered with Federated Media to allow bloggers to monetize their free, hosted blogs on WordPress.com with ads.
Publishers will display advertising in form of banners, pictures and maybe some text that’s very similar to what Federated Media offers some of its other clients. The types of ads will still depend greatly on what kind of content each blog produces.
The company is currently taking signups for anyone who would like to participate in testing the new ad platform.
How to Apply for WordAds
It does look like the program isn’t open to everyone. According to the application form, the criteria for selection for WordAds is:
- Custom Domain
- Level of engagement
- Amount of traffic
- Quality of content
- Language used
Like AdSense, there will be set amount bloggers will reach before WordAds sends them a check.
Personally, I think it is wrong to be so restrictive, because in this way Blogger platform will remain good to publish content without many complications for advertising. At the end of the day, what matters is the quality and content type.
Note: This is an updated version (23rd March 2012) of article. It was said that some VIP WordPress.com users had privilege to show Adsense Ads but with introduction of new service by WordPress itself, that is no more possible.
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I think he used the iframe method
But I dont see any ads now
Hello Siddharth,
Ads are still there, Please check it on individual post view. You cannot use iframe method too to show adsense on wordpress.com
It is only possible when you pay to wordpress.
I found the solution!! I’m moving to wblogin.com … it offers the same service and you can also add adsense adv
cool, moreover wblogin is free and easy.
thanks Rohit
It’s because stuffwhitepeoplelike used VIP hosting, thus wp.com allow it to put adsense, this before they move to the paid host with own domain.
I have added adsense to my blog since early this year and my account balance is at about $10, is this normal or what ?
@Edos,
That will be depend on how much is your traffic, what nice is your blog.
i love google Adsense, it enables me to earn money on the websites and forums that i have put up several years ago. if you got tons of websites, you can earn a lot from Adsense alone
Unbelievable if it just happened, can somebody teach me?
Your blog needs to be popular and then you can personally contact WordPress to make it happen
Thanks a lot for yet another wonderful WordPress tutorial. I am always on the look-out for awesome WordPress tricks to recommend to my clients. Thanks for making this tutorial . It’s just what I was searching for. Truly phenomenal post.
The plugin I use is Best Google Adsense
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/best-google-adsense/